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During a media session prior to the February 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pointed at me and said, "You owe me for getting you a week's vacation in Tampa." Tomlin was right. Sort of. His compelling story and intensely local ties — he graduated from Denbigh High School and the College of William and Mary — were the sole reason I was in Florida wearing shorts in the dead of winter. But truth be told, I've been on vacation since starting at the Daily Press 30 years ago Wednesday. What other gig affords a front-row seat to Hall of Fame athletes, coaches and administrators, not to mention...

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During a media session prior to the February 2009 Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pointed at me and said, "You owe me for getting you a week's vacation in Tampa."
Tomlin was right....

CHARLOTTESVILLE — As Virginia approached its most pressure-packed game of the season Monday night, Josh Sborz wasn't the first name to come to mind to help send the Cavaliers into the College World Series.
By the end of the evening, he'd solidified his...

Danny Hultzen called Virginia's 2009 march to the College World Series trip "a joyride." Brian O'Connor dubbed it "a perfect storm."
Such is life for a first-time CWS program and a coach who grew up a ground-rule double from the...

Finally, vulnerability. Finally, a challenge.
How will Virginia's Cavaliers, borderline invincible in their first four games of this NCAA baseball tournament, respond with their season suddenly on the line Monday after just one hiccup?
"You just...

If you're like me, you crashed Sunday night immediately after, or even before, Dirk Nowitzki's buzzer-beater went begging in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. In which case, you may have missed that UC Irvine will be Virginia baseball's NCAA Super Regional...

Virginia's 2009 baseball season was down to its final five outs when Danny Hultzen hit a grounder to second base. A record Ole Miss crowd of 10,323, and maybe even the Cavaliers themselves, sensed the Rebels were heading to the College World Series.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The No. 2 overall pick in this week's major league draft looked nothing like a two-time ACC pitcher of the year.
It didn't matter because Danny Hultzen got plenty of help from his Virginia teammates.
Hultzen and Cody...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Weather interrupted Game 1 of the NCAA Super Regional between Virginia and UC Irvine for more than an hour Saturday.
"I think our best chance was if the lightning had blown up the stadium," Anteaters coach Mike Gillespie said....

Junior second baseman Keith Werman was not among the eight Virginia Cavaliers selected in the Major League draft. He had no hits or RBIs in Saturday’s 6-0 Super Regional victory over UC Irvine, and his batting average is barely above the Mendoza Line.
So...

The pace was too fast for Virginia’s Robby Andrews, faster than he’d ever encountered. And with limited training, he had but one hope in Friday’s 800-meter race at the NCAA outdoor track championships:Hang back and rely on his renowned,...

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Virginia’s season was down to its last strike Monday and had the Cavaliers lost Game 3 of this Super Regional to UC Irvine, coach Brian O’Connor’s ninth-inning strategy would have been long-debated.That Chris Taylor’s two-out, two-run...

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- After what must rank among the most disheartening defeats of his Hall of Fame career, UC Irvine coach Mike Gillespie made one of the most gracious opening statements I’ve ever heard in a news conference.“I think that I am going to state...

Add an unfathomable, in-front-of-the-home-folks, we're-heading-to-Omaha celebration to the litany of Virginia baseball firsts under coach Brian O'Connor.
In walk-off style. With two outs. With a remarkable season one strike from a demoralizing end.
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Brian O'Connor gazed at his phone Tuesday afternoon and saw 172 texts and 110 emails. Those folks shouldn't expect personalized responses anytime soon.
O'Connor's Virginia baseball team earned its second College World Series appearance in three years...

The University of Virginia and Charlottesvile have fallen hard for Cavaliers’ baseball. It’s a match not even eHarmony could have imagined.A decade ago, the sport was a wasteland at Virginia. The team was poor, support negligible, and administrators...

Kyle Crockett has thrown 12 pitches during Virginia’s six-game run to the College World Series, those in a 13-1 rout of East Carolina.
But if the Cavaliers are to last long in Omaha, chances are the freshman from Poquoson will face a tight spot.
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David Oliver's back on top of his game.
And that means the world's other great high hurdlers will need to be at the top of their games, too.
The Howard University graduate was ranked number one on the planet in the 110-meter high hurdles in 2010, with...

Tra Benefield had 25 points and 10 rebounds Thursday night for Christopher Newport, which won its season opener 77-70 over Randolph-Macon at the Freeman Center.
R-MC was ranked No. 24 nationally in the preseason d3hoops.com poll.
CNU Athletic Director...

— Overshadowed by the Cavaliers' largest run production in nine games, but not at all lost on the mind of coach Brian O'Connor, were the pitching efforts by starter Robert Morey and Andrew Carraway.
Morey, a right-handed sophomore, wasn't overly...